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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the tr

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. – Ruth Benedict

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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. – Ruth Benedict

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Racism
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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. – Ruth Benedict

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strength
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War
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Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. – Ellen Key

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Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move. – Sun Tzu

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War

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain. – Thomas Friedman

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Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they dont even want to try. I dont agree with that approach. – Herman Cain

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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. – B. C. Forbes

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Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car. – Will Durst

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